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Sol @badgerops@mastodon.social

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🚨🚨🚨 Really major Gmail phishing attack going around right now. Do NOT click on an unexpected "Open in Docs" link.

Whether or not you have, now is a great time to review the apps you've authed to your account: security.google.com/settings/s

TFW Resin.io has a devops engineer opening... @pimterry might have to chat at you sometime soon!

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(cringe) This is what I'd call technologically illiterate journalism. It's not quite as bad as complaining about the name of the project (insert crying baby gif), but it's not far elevated above that level.

https://medium.com/dark-mountain/fatal-flaw-with-mastodon-1ef0cb1965ed

He mentions that the system is distributed, but obviously hasn't grokked what that actually means.

Servers have user accounts. I know, shocking, isn't it? Same applies for email, xmpp, forums and just about any other service located on a server. They're not all magically synchronized by some universally agreed protocol. Nor would it be reasonable for them to be.

If you want a pre-internet analogy, there could be Bob living in Manchester and Bob living in Glasgow, and they might be different Bobs!

Scandalized? I thought you would be.
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I'm not actually sure how old Mr Dao is, but thats pretty irrelevant to the issue.

Step 1: Overbook plane
Step 2: "Choose" 4 passengers to kick off the flight because you overbooked it and 'needed to get crewmembers to another flight'
Step 3: Beat up a 50 year old doctor and drag him off the flight
Step 4: Find something from 10 years ago to make it seem like it wasn't *that* big of an issue, the guy was bad after all!

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I just wrote a guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Digital Ocean:

digitalmind.io/post/deploying-

I hope you guys will find it useful!

Let me know if you have any questions/suggestions. I'll be happy to help, or clarify things that are unclear.

@Gargron @Support #NeedHelp #Mastodon #Instances

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When is the next season of Sillicon Valley, anyway

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and while I'm talking about books and technology training materials, I wrote a thing. blindseeker.com/AVATAR

Have you ever wanted to build your own VM lab? or know someone who wants to break into IT? Blue team? Red team? and needs to know how to stand up their own? Check out the book I wrote.

federated identity probably needs to happen or this whole thing is going to fall apart.

Oh noes, I'm unverified. What am I going to do now?

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